Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.

The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.

An obstacle is often an unrecognized opportunity

Pain is an outcry of sin.

A true friend is the gift of God, and He only who made hearts can unite them.